Rapid13,

Congrats on building your airplane. I love to build as well and like you, by far prefer to fly what I build. Building your own also helps keep from having a shop full of junk that falls apart and flies poorly. Try to get a tight parts fit so you don't have to fill gaps. Lightweight spackle is OK for non-structural areas but has zero strength. "Gap filling" CA is only for the tiniest of gaps. All CA except the flexible variety is very brittle and will easily crack if too thick. An aliphatic resin like yellow woodworking glue or Titebond is a great alternative to CA. It seldom causes a build to take longer because it dries pretty quickly. Parts like a rudder or elevator can be handled 15-30 minutes after the last part is glued in. It also gets lighter as it dries unlike CAs and epoxies and is more durable in a hard landing than CA because it retains some flexibility and it soaks into the wood fibers.

Washout, as was mentioned previously, is easy to add on the building board. Just prop up the trailing edge of the outboard rib with a piece of scrap balsa 3/8" thick so you build the twist into the wing. That way you aren't dependent on the covering alone to create and hold the washout. Washout causes the outboard portion of the wing to remain flying as the inboard area stalls. The result is that if you stall, the plane drops the nose straight ahead and starts flying again instead of dropping a wing.

I can't agree that airplanes with ailerons fly "better." They fly DIFFERENTLY. Ailerons make it easier to roll. They keep the plane more interesting beyond the initial learning curve. I have a Kadet Senior that's 20 years old and it's still fun to fly without ailerons. I'm thinking about building the smaller Seniorita with electric power because I like the Senior so much.

Have fun with the build.
David